- [Instructor] Let's look at how to get edited photos
out of Lightroom Classic with the export function.
But before we get into how to export,
I think we should do a little review about the catalog.
With Lightroom Classic, you don't save photos
in the traditional sense like you would with Photoshop.
Remember with Lightroom, the photos remain untouched
on the hard drive.
The edits are found in the catalog, along with previews
and information about the photos.
The edits are not with the photograph.
To share an edited version of a photo,
we need to export out a copy of it.
To get to the export, we come up to file
and down here to export,
and note the keyboard shortcut is Shift + Command + E
for a Mac or Shift + Control + E for Windows.
So, I'll select that.
And in the export dialogue,
we see just a ton of options here.
What you choose is going to depend on the intended use of
the image that you export.
So, we'll start by setting up some choices here
for exporting a JPEG to be used on social media
or sending in an email.
The first thing we want to do is export to the hard drive,
and then we want to choose a location for the export.
So, I'll go ahead and export it to the desktop,
but let's put it in a sub folder
that's called exported JPEGs,
so that we know what's inside of that folder.
And then, next we have the option to rename it.
We could rename the file on the export.
The best way to learn how these work is
to select one of these options,
and then see what the example shows us.
So, with the custom name plus original file number,
you can give it a custom name.
These images were taken in Italy, so let's name it Italy,
and then it's upended with the file number.
If we come down here in the film strip,
we'll see the selected image is 5099.
So, the export image will be Italy 5099.
I like this option because it helps me find the original.
If I need to go back to Lightroom
and re-export it at a different size,
I can easily find it by that number.
We'll skip over video because we're not working with video.
And we'll look at the file settings here.
In the image format, there's a lot of different formats
that you can export to.
I most often use JPEG or TIFF.
JPEGs for social media and email and TIFFs for print files.
For this example, we'll use JPEG and we'll leave all
the default settings cause those were great
for social media.
If you're exporting a JPEG, you definitely want to resize it.
So, we'll click to resize to fit,
and the best option in here is to choose the long edge,
because this will work for either landscape or portrait
with any crop proportions.
And then 1200 pixels is nice number for social media.
You may need more or less pixels depending on
where the image is going to be used.
And then the resolution is completely irrelevant
because we don't intend on printing this file.
Then for output sharpening, it's not required or necessary,
but I do find that the default settings
for standard screen usually do a good job,
so I'll turn that on.
In the metadata, you can include as much metadata
in the export as you want or none at all.
And I usually leave the default settings as they are here.
In the watermarking, this is where we choose
the custom watermark that we created.
So, let's choose the lower right white signature
for this one, and the final option here is post-processing.
I like to change this to show in finder,
this way I can look at the export at image right
after it's made to confirm that it looks good.
Now, that we've gone through and made all these choices,
we should create a preset so we don't have to redo it.
To create a preset, you click on add over here on the left
and then give it a descriptive name,
so that you know what it is,
so we'll say a 1200 pixel JPEG with signature.
And then when I click create,
it's going to put it in the user preset folder,
and we see that here on the left hand side.
Let's go ahead and make a couple more presets
while we're here.
Remember we had two watermarks,
so let's create a preset that uses the logo watermark,
and then up here in the file renaming, we should give it
a different name so that it doesn't overwrite
the first export with this name.
So, for this one, I'm just going to turn off the rename.
So, the ones that have the logo will get exported with just
the file name with the new extension,
so this matches the file name down here in the filmstrip.
And then we'll go ahead and add this as another preset,
so we'll call this 1200 JPEG logo.
And then I think I should show you how to create a preset
for exporting images that you might send to a printer.
If we're sending it to a printer,
let's come back up here at the top.
Let's put it into a different folder.
So, we'll call this one for printing
and we don't need to rename it.
You could, but you don't have to.
For the image format, we want to choose TIFF.
And then all these default settings are perfect for print.
For image size, just turn it off.
That's really the easiest solution.
Just send all the pixels you have to your printer
and let them determine how large they can print it.
If you need something smaller for like a four by five print,
then you'll have to figure out the amount of pixels
that you need for that size.
But most of the time I just leave all the pixels there.
We don't need an output sharpen.
The metadata is fine and we don't want to watermark
on our printed file, so we'll turn that off as well.
Now, let's add this.
So, we'll call this for printing and then create that.
and then I'm going to go ahead and cancel out of this
because I want to show you a couple of things.
First of all, we can batch export
by selecting multiple files so I'll select both of these in
the film strip, and then I'm going to come up to file,
and this time come down to export with preset and notice
that all three of our presets are here,
so let's choose the first one we created.
It's going export both of those files very quickly,
opens the folder on the hard drive,
and then I can use my space bar to get a quick preview of
what that looks like.
And we can see that it has the signature watermark
in the lower right hand corner.
Let's go back and do that again with the logo preset.
It should export those really quick.
It put them in the same folder.
Notice that the file name is different
because we changed that.
If I do a space bar to preview it,
we can see how the logo looks in the center of the image.
And then we can finish this up by exporting these for print,
by coming down to file, export for printing.
This might take just a little bit longer
because it's exporting out larger images.
And if I do a preview of this, we see we have a larger file.
It looks fantastic and it should print really well.
So, I'll close out of that and go back to Lightroom
and just review what we did.
Setting up presets will save you time in the long run
and you can create as many as you need.
After you export photos,
I recommend again saving them permanently
because you can always come back to Lightroom
and export a photo out again when needed.
If you do decide to save your exported images,
don't import them back into Lightroom.
I've seen too many users, reimport exported images,
and then get them confused with the originals.
The best practice is to just not do it.